MEDSF Liberia

MEDSF supports efforts to treat COVID-19 in Liberia

Mon, 04 May 2020 12:44:17 +0000

Iline Celeen is the MEDSF Emergency Project Coordinator in Liberia, working on the COVID-19 response in the country and outlines what we’re doing in this interview.

Community awareness and treatment changes lives for epilepsy patients in Liberia

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:35:00 +0000

MEDSF is showing how increasing community awareness and providing treatment is life-changing for a growing cohort of epilepsy patients in Monrovia, Liberia

Providing psychiatric care close to home in Liberia

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:16:18 +0000

MEDSF is expanding its free treatment programme for people with mental health disorders in Liberia with activities beginning this month in the densely populated township of West Point in Monrovia.

An innovative approach to mental healthcare in Liberia

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:31:38 +0000

Greg Keane, an MEDSF psychiatrist and mental health adviser, explains how and why our community-based approach to mental healthcare in Liberia works.

Liberia: MEDSF opens paediatric surgery programme

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:41:06 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MEDSF) opened a paediatric surgical programme at Bardnesville Junction Hospital (BJH) on the outskirts of Liberia's capital Monrovia on 11 January, with a goal of making surgical care more available for children in the country.

MSF: HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:05:40 +0000

“This is a pivotal opportunity to anchor governments’ efforts... to tackle the many obstacles people living with HIV face every day."

Libya: MEDSF continues to provide medical care to migrants and refugees detained in Tripoli

Fri, 19 May 2017 11:18:08 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MEDSF) continued to provide lifesaving and primary healthcare to refugees and migrants detained in the capital Tripoli during the first quarter of 2017. More than 4,000 medical consultations took place in seven different detention centres nominally under the control of the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM).

The Politics of Fear

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:16:11 +0000

New MEDSF book reveals that a fear-crippled response caused unnecessary deaths and suffering during the West African Ebola epidemic

West Africa: MEDSF closes final Ebola projects for survivors

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:39:31 +0000

Liberia: The psychological scars of Ebola

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:46:16 +0000

Interview with MEDSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly